The RoleThe Datacenter Portfolio & Vendor Management Lead will own the operational backbone of Cerebras' global datacenter program.
This person partners closely with Engineering, Infrastructure, Finance, Legal, Procurement, Accounting, and Executive Leadership to manage strategic supplier relationships, commercial agreements, budgets, payment operations, and portfolio reporting.
This is a highly cross-functional role requiring exceptional organizational skills, commercial judgment, and the ability to drive execution across multiple simultaneous infrastructure programs.
ResponsibilitiesPortfolio Management- Own the centralized portfolio of global datacenter projects
- Track capacity deployments, schedules, milestones, risks, and dependencies
- Develop executive dashboards and portfolio health reporting
- Coordinate planning across Engineering, Operations, Finance, and Supply Chain
Contract Management- Own lifecycle management of datacenter contracts
- Coordinate contract negotiations with Legal and Procurement
- Track key commercial terms, renewals, amendments, and obligations
- Maintain repository of supplier agreements and commercial documentation
Vendor Management- Manage strategic relationships with:
- Colocation providers
- Construction partners
- Power and utility providers
- Network providers
- Equipment vendors
- Professional services partners
- Track vendor performance against SLAs and KPIs
- Drive quarterly business reviews
- Resolve commercial escalations
Financial Operations- Track purchase commitments and contract values
- Partner with Finance on forecasting and budget management
- Coordinate invoice approvals and payment workflows
- Monitor spend against approved budgets
- Support capital expenditure planning
Program Operations- Build scalable operational processes for the rapidly growing datacenter organization
- Drive governance reviews
- Maintain risk registers
- Coordinate executive reporting
- Improve portfolio management tooling and reporting automation
QualificationsRequired- 8+ years managing complex infrastructure, construction, or technology programs
- Experience managing large vendor portfolios
- Strong contract administration experience
- Budget ownership experience ($10M+ preferred)
- Experience working with Finance and Legal organizations
- Excellent project management skills
- Ability to work across highly technical engineering organizations
- Outstanding communication and executive presentation skills
PreferredExperience with one or more:
- Hyperscale datacenters
- Cloud infrastructure
- AI infrastructure
- Colocation providers
- Construction management
- Critical facilities
- Supply chain operations
- ERP systems (Oracle, SAP, NetSuite)
- Coupa
- Jira
- Smartsheet
- Airtable
- Tableau or Power BI
Success in this RoleWithin your first year you will:
- Build operational rigor across Cerebras' global datacenter portfolio
- Improve visibility into project health and financial performance
- Establish scalable vendor governance processes
- Streamline contract and payment workflows
- Enable infrastructure teams to execute faster by reducing operational overhead
- Establish metrics of economic KPI's in all leases in the portfolio (Contracted vs actual)
